New Vision Gallery, Art museum in central Auckland, New Zealand
New Vision Gallery was a dealer gallery in His Majesty's Arcade, central Auckland, run by Kees and Tina Hos from 1959. A craft gallery occupied one level, with a contemporary art gallery added above in 1965. The arcade and theatre building was demolished in 1987–1988, so nothing of the gallery remains.
New Vision Gallery was founded in 1957 by Dutch printmaker Kees Hos and his wife, weaver Tina Hos, who had emigrated to New Zealand in 1956. It opened as the New Vision Craft Centre in Takapuna, then moved in early 1959 to His Majesty's Arcade in central Auckland. In 1965 the Hoses added an upstairs gallery for contemporary art. The business closed in October 1986, and the Arcade and Theatre building was demolished in December 1987–January 1988.
The gallery took its name from László Moholy-Nagy's book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture. It was among the few New Zealand dealer galleries showing abstract art, and Gordon Walters and Theo Schoon held their first solo shows there. In 1970 it staged Silver, Gold, Greenstone, the first substantial exhibition of contemporary New Zealand jewellery.
The gallery no longer exists: it closed in October 1986, and His Majesty's Arcade, which housed it in central Auckland, was demolished between December 1987 and January 1988. Nothing of the space can be visited today. Its history was reassembled in a 2008 exhibition curated by Joanna Trezise at the Gus Fisher Gallery.
The gallery took its name from László Moholy-Nagy's book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture. A 2008 exhibition at the Gus Fisher Gallery, curated by Joanna Trezise, revisited the gallery's history.
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